Spies Don’t Fall For Their Asset by Meg Easton
Author: Meg Easton
Published: 2023
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Suspence
Book One: Romancing the Spy
Synopsis From Goodreads:
He’s an international spy. She accidentally becomes his asset.
Every Tuesday, my best friend and I get together to watch spy movies, and I dream of a secret agent sweeping me off my feet.
Imagine my surprise when a) one actually does, b) I don’t realize he’s a spy (even though “secret” is in the job title, so I should’ve seen that coming), and c) his mission is to protect me.
For the I don’t need protecting. But if I did, Jace would be my top pick. I have more fun and feel more connected during the 10 minutes when he’s rescuing me from a blind date than I’ve had in the past several years of dating combined. Add a helicopter, a black-tie gala, and a motorcycle chase, and even though I’m reluctant to date anyone, I’m ready to let him protect me anytime.
Yet, my (considerable) reluctance to date is nothing compared to Jace’s. He has a rule not to date anyone until he is no longer a covert intelligence operative. Something about it being a bad idea to mix love and espionage.
But am I falling anyway? Yeah, I might be falling.
Send help.
“Spies Don’t Fall for Their Asset” is a closed-door romantic comedy brimming with chemistry, sizzling tension, and witty banter. In a world where the family business is the spy business, prepare to laugh, swoon, and fall head over heels in love.
My Take:
Have you ever been at a restaurant or a mall and played a game where you made up stories for the people around you? And, of course, it’s always more fun the more exotic and ridiculous it is. That man used to be a brilliant hedge fund manager, but he gave it all up to follow his life’s passion: being a circus clown. Or that woman is on a mission to find and buy the only known gold-plated walnut in existence, and if she does not do it before noon, her entire inheritance is going to go to the charity chosen by her evil third cousin: a farm that rehabilitates rattlesnakes. That is the kind of quirky, lighthearted fun contained in this book. Mackenzie is a girl who needs to feel as if she is fully living her life, and Jace is a guy who has protection for others as one of his topmost priorities. Their paths cross when Jace helps Mackenzie extricate herself from a horrible blind date, and then they cross again when she is innocently mistaken for another person and entangled in espionage. Even if she doesn’t realize it. So Jace steps in to protect her, and the snowball of secrets and lies mixed with real connections and feelings grows as it rolls down the plot line hill towards the inevitable collision with the truth of the situation. Is this a realistic book? No, absolutely not. I think that’s pretty evident from just the title. But it’s a thoroughly entertaining book that is given just a touch of seriousness and reality by the scars from past situations and the fears of the characters that have been carried into the future. It is a clean, humorous book that will give you the feeling of a fun adventure movie and will leave you with a smile.
Books in the Romancing the Spy series:
Spies Don’t Fall For Their Assets
Spies Don’t Fall For Their Rival
Language:
None
Sexual Content:
There are a few kisses, one mention of a character imagining a scene of a married couple “the morning after an adventurous night under the covers” and a mention of rhythmic knocking being heard from a hotel room next door.
Drug/Alcohol Use:
There is a fancy gala that has a bar where several people order alcoholic drinks and are seen with drinks in hand.
Violence:
There is the mention of a kidnapping that happened in the past, a character gets shot, but without any graphic description of it, and there are scenes with bad guys with guns and people being chased.
Plot/Storytelling:
This is a character-driven story told in dual POV.